Why are gstreamer plugins labeled as "bad" and "ugly"?
Clementine says missing gstreamer plugin when I try to play a .m4a file. Totem and Rhythm Box play it fine.
$ wajig listinstalled gstreamer0.10
gstreamer0.10-alsa:amd64
gstreamer0.10-nice:amd64
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:amd64
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:amd64
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly:amd64
gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:amd64
gstreamer0.10-x:amd64
libgstreamer0.10-0:amd64
I'm on Trusty, Clementine was great on Precise, so keen to get it working again.
I'm trying to install GStreamer 1.0 on Ubuntu 12.04, the default GStreamer that comes with Ubuntu 12.04 is gst 0.10. I could see that I could download the GStreamer 1.0 source from gstreamer.freedesktop.org, build it and install it. But this installs only the gst plugins only, it does not install the actual required libraries like:
- mpeg2dec,
- h264,
- and other dependent libraries.
These libraries are required by the gst plugins.
Rhythmbox 2.96 doesn't run any midi file on Ubuntu 12.04, even after installing GStreamer and Ubuntu Restricted Extras.
Rhythmbox-Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|rhythmbox-metadata|audio/midi decoder|decoder-audio/midi
[0xb5504e40] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `MIDI'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
Rhythmbox works fine, but sometimes certain tracks won't be played; sometimes when certain tracks are played all I hear is static/cracking sound with basically no sound at all.
If I restart rhythmbox and play the same song/s again, they will play fine (No static).
Any ideas?